by Amy Simpson | Sep 23, 2020 | Archaeology, Artifact, Delaware, Dutch, Kookpot, Seventeenth Century
Featured Fragment –A Kookpot from Casimir By William Liebeknecht Our story starts in 1651 with the construction of Fort Casimir, a colonial fortification built by the West India Company in what is now New Castle, Delaware. The four-sided fort was only lightly equipped...
by Amy Simpson | Jun 23, 2017 | Archaeology, Artifact, Delaware, Eighteenth Century, Medical, Nineteenth Century
Featured Fragment – Fleam Cover By Kerry S. González In the fall of 2012 Dovetail Cultural Resource Group (Dovetail) conducted a data recovery excavation on a mid-eighteenth through late-nineteenth century domestic site (7NC-F-135/Armstrong-Rogers) in New Castle...
by Amy Simpson | Mar 17, 2017 | Archaeology, Artifact, Delaware, Entertainment, Houston-LeCompt, Nineteenth Century
Featured Fragment – Instrument Fragments of Houston-LeCompt By Kerry S. González In the summer of 2012 Dovetail Cultural Resource Group conducted a large-scale excavation at the Houston-LeCompt site in Middletown, Delaware sponsored by the Delaware Department of...
by Amy Simpson | Aug 12, 2016 | Archaeology, Artifact, Delaware, Entertainment, Nineteenth Century
Featured Fragment – Brandywine Springs Carousel Ring By Bill Liebeknecht In 1886, Richard Crook rented the Brandywine Springs facilities from the Fell family. Located west of downtown Wilmington, Delaware, Crook envisioned a resort where people would go on weekends...
by Amy Simpson | Apr 13, 2016 | Consumption, Eighteenth Century, Household, Houston-LeCompt, Pearlware
Featured Fragment – Mended Pearlware Tea Bowl By Kerry S. González Several hundreds of years before tea was being consumed in the Americas (and even Britain), it was widely consumed in Asia. European traders residing in Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth...